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posted by mrpg on Friday March 17 2017, @06:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-help-us dept.

The Associated Press reports:

Oregon's chief medical examiner said Tuesday that an infant born to members of a church that practices faith healing died from complications of prematurity as authorities conducted a criminal investigation into the child's death. The baby, Gennifer, was probably "a couple of months" premature and her lungs were too underdeveloped to allow her to breath unassisted for long, Dr. Karen Gunson, the chief medical examiner, said in a phone interview.

Clackamas County sheriff's investigators will present the case to prosecutors but have not finished interviewing witnesses, Sgt. Brian Jensen told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

She died a few hours after her birth at her grandparents' home on March 5 in Oregon City, where the Followers of Christ Church is based. Her birth was attended by three traditional midwives, family members and other church members, authorities have said. No one called 911 when the baby began to have trouble breathing, Jensen said. A deputy medical examiner responding to a call about Gennifer's death noticed the surviving twin, Evelyn, was also struggling and called law enforcement, who persuaded the parents to get her medical treatment. That baby girl is doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit at Oregon Health & Science University, Gunson said.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by KiloByte on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:54AM

    by KiloByte (375) on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:54AM (#480756)

    The only widely quoted study with that conclusion, Orange Farm, is so obviously biased that it's a prime example of junk science. They even destroyed the control group "to give them the benefits" right after the trial ended, before even publishing the results!

    And as for effects on sex life: a couple of times, it happened to me that somehow my foreskin retracted while walking. Because of people around I couldn't adjust it, and the chafing was terrible. So if such pain isn't even noticed by circumcised men, they really have lost almost all feel in their penises. No wonders they claim they "last longer" -- it's not far from just cutting the dick off and replacing with a literal piece of wood. It will stay stiff forever, and who cares about losing the last bit of sensation, right?

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